Materialising Roman Histories

Astrid Van Oyen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at Cornell University. Specializing in theoretical and empirical approaches to material culture in Roman archaeology, she has worked on material sources as varied as terra sigillata pottery in France, grain silos in Spain, and Vesuvian houses in Italy, and has written about questions of postcolonial archaeology, material agency, typology, and morality. She is author of How Things Make History: The Roman Empire and its Terra Sigillata Pottery.

Martin Pitts is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter. To date his research concerns quantitative approaches to material culture and consumption in Iron Age to Roman northwest Europe, and the application of globalization concepts to the Roman world. He is co-author, with Miguel John Versluys, of Globalisation and the Roman world: World history, Connectivity and Material Culture, and with Dominic Perring, of Alien Cities: Consumption and the Origins of Urbanism in Roman Britain.